Rhetorical Devices

Question 1

Synecdoche

Answer 1

a figure of speech in which a part stands for the whole.

ex.

a. Genus Substituted for the Whole:
- - vessel for ship; Weapon for Sword; Creature for Man
b. Species for Genus:
- - Bread for Food; Cutthroat for Assassin
c. Part Substituted for the Whole:
- - Sail for Ship; Hands for Helpers; Roofs for Houses
d. Matter for what is Made From It:
- - Sliver for Money; Canvas for Sail; Steel for Sword

Question 2

Metonymy

Answer 2

= substitution of some attributive or suggestive word for what is actually meant.

ex. …..

Question 3

Puns

Answer 3

= generic name for those figures which make a play on words

ex.
a. Antanaclasis
b. Paronomasia
c. Syllepsis

Question 4

Antanaclasis

Answer 4

= repetition of a word in two different senses.

ex. “But lest I should be condemned of introducing LICENSE, when I oppose LICENSING….”

Question 5

Anaphora

Answer 5

= repetition of the same word or group of words at the BEGINNINGS of successive clauses.

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Question 6

Epistrophe

Answer 6

= repetition of the same word or group of words at the ENDS of successive clauses.

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Question 7

Panchronistic

Answer 7

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Question 8

Synchronistic

Answer 8

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Question 9

Anthimeria

Answer 9

= the substitution of one part of speech for another.

ex.
- - “I’ll UNHAIR thy head.”
- - “The thunder would not PEACE at my bidding.”

Question 10

Periphrasis

Answer 10

= substitution of a descriptive word or phrase for a proper name or of a proper name for a quality associated with the name.

ex. “They do not escape JIM CROW; they merely encounter….”

Question 11

Paronomasia

Answer 11

= use of words alike in sound but different in meaning.

ex. “Independence is what a boy feels when all he wants from father is to be left A LOAN.”

Question 12

Syllepsis

Answer 12

= use of words understood differently in relation to two or more other words, which it modifies or governs.

ex. “

Question 13

Personification (or Prosopopoeia)

Answer 13

= investing abstractions or inanimate objects with human qualities or attributes.

ex. “The ground THIRSTS for rain.”

Question 14

Hyperbole

Answer 14

= the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect.

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Question 15

Litotes

Answer 15

= deliberate use of understatement, not to deceive someone but to enhance the impressiveness of what we say.

ex.
- - “I am a citizen of no mean city.”
- - “To write is, indeed, no unpleasing employment.”
- - “It isn’t very serious. I have this tiny little tumor on the brain.”

Question 16

Rhetorical Question (erotema)

Answer 16

= asking a question, not for the purpose of eliciting an answer but for the purpose of asserting or denying something obliquely.

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Question 17

Irony

Answer 17

= use of a word in such a way as to convey a meaning opposite to the literal meaning of the word.

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Question 18

Parallelism

Answer 18

= similarity of structure in a pari or series of related words, phrases, or clauses.

ex.

IMPORTANT: Nouns yoked with Nouns, Prep. Phrases with Prep. Phrases, etc.

Question 19

Isocolon

Answer 19

= Scheme of Parallelism where parallel elements are similar not only in structure but in Length.

ex. “His purpose was TO IMPRESS THE IGNORANT, TO PERPLEX THE DUBIOUS, and TO CONFOUND THE SCRUPULOUS.” [to + Verb + the + Noun – x3]

Question 20

Antithesis

Answer 20

= the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, often in parallel structure.

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Question 21

Polysyndeton

Answer 21

= opposite deliberate use of many conjunctions.

ex. (Gospel of Mark… AND, AND, AND, ….)

Question 22

Alliteration

Answer 22

= repetition of initial or medial CONSONANTS in two or more adjacent words.

ex. “A sable, silent, solemn forest stood.”

Question 23

Assonance

Answer 23

= the repetition of similar VOWEL sounds, preceded and followed by different consonants, in the stressed syllables of adjacent words.

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Question 24

Inclusio

Answer 24

= rhetorical device, also called ‘Cyclical Composition,” in which the author returns to the point where he began.

Question 25

Auxesis

Answer 25

= magnifying importance by referring with a disproportionate name

Question 26

Chiasm (Chiastic Structure)

Answer 26

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Question 27

Semantic Field

Answer 27

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